Upstreaming problems defeated, the two-part transcript of the September 17, 2002, Berkeley J-school weblog panel is now available:
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2:43:28 PM 
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All About Weblogs announces an upcoming program on October 5, at 2 pm, at the Sulzer Branch of the Chicago Public Library at 4455 N. Lincoln Ave.:
I'll explain what a weblog is, what types and genres of weblogs exsist, taking the audience on a short tour to a few of my favorites. I'll explain some simple ways to find blogs that you might be interested in, and ways to track them. I'll also briefly cover how to start you own, and offer some tips for running one. ... [W]e will have a panel of some smart local webloggers who will discuss what blogging has done for us, what it's done for the Web, and what it can do offline. These and deeper questions will be discussed by a panel which will include AKMA, from AKMA's Random Thoughts, Dan Hartung of Lake Effect, Jim McGee of McGee's Musings. They'll be few more as well.... [T]his promises to be the largest gathering of Chicago bloggers ever assembled.Sounds fun. I'm sure many will blog it for the rest of us, right?
All About Weblogs is a new blog by kiplog. I'd have used a permalink above, but currently it gets an error, implying that perhaps the archives have never been published.
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2:11:10 PM say what []
Once again I am told that Radio "Can't write stream because the TCP connection was closed unexpectedly."
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1:40:46 PM say what []
Hylton Jolliffe's Corante on Blogging blog, which probably obviates this site with its thorough coverage of metablog commentary, notes that his site was the straw that broke Sscott Heiferman's patience for all this navelgazing:
Scott Heiferman, the founder of MEETUP: "Today's the day. I'm officially no longer interested in the world of blogs." The cause? Corante on Blogging: "The world of bloggers talking about blogging and other bloggers is boring. This is the page that did me in."My gut tells me the backlash is well underway.
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1:14:38 PM say what []
A week has passed since the J-school panel and I've just now completed my subjective transcript of the panel (in two parts).
[Note: At the moment Radio is unable to upstream my story files for some reason so the above links aren't working. I'll remove this notice when they do work and post another update.]
I do not intend this to be my "article" on the panel, per se, but more like a running summary and commentary on the proceedings, mostly for my own use in writing an actual, final article, but also for anyone else who wants to compare with their own notes, memory, or the streaming video that I've thus far been unable to play.
It's rather long (as was the panel) and dense with information, so I don't think it necessarily represents the best way of learning about the panel. If I did think so I wouldn't bother trying to write anything else about it. As it is, I do think a pithier summary deserves to be written, so I will continue plugging away.
I broke the transcript into two parts because it was straining the size limits of the text box forms I work with to upload these entries and stories. The stories pages still have the old design with the garish non-scrolling backdrop. If this presents enough of an impediment to any reader that they become inspired to write to me and complain about it, I'll probably go tweak the default template that the stories use to remove it.
12:51:26 PM say what []
Can't upstream because "Can't write stream because the TCP connection was closed unexpectedly."So new posts are not appearing (yet). Ironically, by the time you read this they will of course have started appearing again. Probably nothing a little power-cycling won't fix.
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11:40:10 AM say what []
Reading the latest big media blog blurb (from CNN), the Spartaneity Project loses patience with old-media tunnelvision, quoting the most egregious part of the squib, "When the dot-coms bombed, something shifted in Blogland. Well-known journalists and other self-proclaimed experts began blogging. They used their blogspace to comment on the news of the day with blunt and unvarnished insight. Blogs became something people wanted to read.":
No, they became something that the mass market culture suddenly noticed. Believe it or not, CNN, actual real people were actually out there reading actual weblogs before you and other facets of the mass commercial media discovered them and/or started producing them.
In the never-ending writing and re-writing the mythos of weblog history, let's all try to remember that weblogs were not somehow illegitimate prior to their "discovery" by the mass media.
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9:03:46 AM say what []
According to Infoworld: "Macromedia will extend Flash Remoting MX to .Net and Java application servers, enabling Internet application development for these platforms based on Macromedia's technology."
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